Tech Events in Edinburgh
Upcoming tech events in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Upcoming events in Edinburgh
TechTalks Edinburgh #10 – Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Legacy in Months, Not Years: Keeping AI-Written Code Safe to Change
Dmitriy Fedoryshchev
Hear how to tell whether agent-written code is making a codebase safer or riskier, and how the rules the agent kept breaking became checks it cannot skip, built into Dmitriy's own open-source tools. Lessons from modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices with a squad that went AI-native under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained.
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Agenda:
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm - Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat
- 6:30pm- 6:40pm - Opening talk
- 6:40pm-7:30pm - Main talk
- 7:30pm-7:45pm - q&a
- 7:45pm-8:00pm - beverages • networking • closing.
- 8:00pm onwards - Afterparty at a nearby pub.
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Speaker Spotlight:
Dmitriy Fedoryshchev – Lead Software Engineer – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dife/
He has worked on projects from startups to enterprises. His latest was modernising a 600-table, 21 TB legacy core into microservices, taking over from four previous attempts, with a squad that became AI-native on a custom multi-agent system under one doctrine: only merge code that can be understood and explained. Over a hundred merged open-source PRs across 20 projects, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.
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Partners:
- CodeBase
- Dougray
- Scottish Technology Club
- Beyond Tech
- Lyxonn
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Disclaimer:
We will take pictures and videos of the event for our social pages. If you prefer not to be in any photos or videos, please let us know.
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to stay in the loop. See you at the next TechTalks!
Previous events:
TechTalks #9 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/315860405/
TechTalks #8 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/314756430/
TechTalks #7 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/314177654/
GameDevEd Social Meetup
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Discord server for this and other local gamedev events: https://discord.gg/HnPSCDJ
A casual social gathering for local game developers to meet and chat! All ages, stages and disciplines are welcome -- whether you're a student generalist or a triple-A veteran, a community manager or a musician, artist or hobbyist, anyone who works in/on/around games and wants to talk to like-minded people is welcome!
You don't need to bring anything, but if you are working on something and have videos or even a demo to play you will find an eager audience. And although it's set in a pub, don't feel obliged to drink either; you'll find many of us having dinner and soft drinks.
Evening drinks - meet people in Tech! (developers, PMs, designers, UX etc)
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
We organise friendly informal networking events for people in Tech to share ideas, learn from each other, and make new connections.
Who are the events for?
People working in tech who want to connect with others in the Edinburgh tech community, including:
- Software engineers
- Product managers
- Data / AI professionals
- Startup founders & operators
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You’ll meet people who are:
- Working in software engineering, product, data, AI, or startups
- Building projects, products, or growing their careers in tech
Why should you join?
- Learn from others working in tech
- Expand your network to help your career
- It could lead to collaborations or new opportunities
- It’s a lot of fun!
✨ How it works
Secure your place and join a group of people working in and around tech.
Just arrive at the venue:
- Grab a drink, find the group, and settle in
- Ask the bar staff for the ****"****Edinburgh Tech Network" table booking
- Expect a friendly, welcoming group and a great atmosphere 👋
Have better conversations
- You’ll be surrounded by people interested in tech and building things
- Discussions are naturally more engaging and relevant 🤝
Build connections + opportunities
- Meet people you can stay in touch with
- Learn from others in the space
- Potentially collaborate on projects or opportunities ⚡
📍 Location
We host events at relaxed venues in central Edinburgh:
- Easy to get to locations
- Pubs or bars with a good atmosphere
- Spaces that are ideal for conversation 🍻
Spots are limited to keep the group high quality.
If you work in tech and want to meet others in your space, you’ll get a lot from this 👋
World Usability Day special: Tech for Good
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Our thanks to User Vision for sponsoring this event.
Check out their Open House World Usability Day event at the User Vision office in the afternoon. See https://uservision.co.uk/training/world-usability-day-2026-at-user-vision-12-11-2026 for registration and details.
For our November meetup, we celebrate World Usability Day with a ‘tech for good’ theme, and are delighted to welcome two fantastic speakers who will share their experiences of starting and scaling products in this space.
James Buchan (Founder and CEO of ePass) will tell his story of going from CivTech challenge to national government infrastructure, and Tirtho Dasgupta (Founder, Nirmānaa) will share his experience of building an accessibility co-pilot in just 9 weeks.
Proceedings
- 5.15pm: Doors
- 5.45pm: From Challenge to Infrastructure: What It Really Takes to Design for Government (James Buchan)
- 6.30pm: Break
- 6.40pm: Designing Doubt: Can I Make This Journey? (Tirtho Dasgupta)
- 7.30pm: Close
From Challenge to Infrastructure: What It Really Takes to Design for Government (James Buchan)
Most government tech projects begin with a specification. ePass began with a problem: licensing in Scotland was slow, paper-heavy and different in every council and agency. CivTech asked for an outcome, not a solution. That one difference changed everything that followed.
In this talk, James Buchan, Founder and CEO of ePass, tells the story of going from a CivTech challenge to national government infrastructure. He’ll cover each stage, from concept to pilot to live services, and on to national adoption as a reusable common component.
User-centred design runs through the whole story. It isn’t a phase you finish. It’s what earns you the right to keep going. James will cover:
- Who the users are. In government you have more than one. You’re designing for citizens, businesses, licensing officers and policy teams all at once.
- Research in complex places. How to do discovery when every department works differently and the “as-is” process lives in people’s heads.
- Standards as a design tool. Why the Digital Scotland Service Standard and assessments push for better products, if you treat them that way.
- Designing for reuse. How to build a common component that 160+ licence types can configure, without it becoming hundreds of different products.
- What scale changes. How UCD practice has to adapt once you’re infrastructure and not a pilot.
You’ll leave with practical lessons on research, design and delivery that hold up in government, and an honest look at what goes wrong along the way.
Designing Doubt: Can I Make This Journey? (Tirtho Dasgupta)
In this talk, Tirtho will share his experience of building an accessibility co-pilot in just 9 weeks, solo. Through this journey, he'll explore how AI is changing the nature of design work, challenging designers to move beyond creating certainty and instead design for uncertainty itself.
Designing Doubt asks what “tech as good” really demands when the right answer is often “I’m not sure.”
About James
James Buchan is Founder and CEO of ePass, the Scottish GovTech company automating how governments handle licensing and permitting. ePass started as a CivTech challenge, a spinout from AI and software delivery company Zudu. It’s now a national common component, part of the Digital Strategy for Scotland and Programme for Government. James is a second-time founder with a background in data, product and digital transformation.
About Tirtho
Tirtho is a strategic design experience leader over two decades of experience in designing and delivering enterprise products and SaaS applications, now moving into AI native product experience.
Women in Tech Edinburgh - OutGeekWomen
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
All the badass women in tech, are you in? #outgeekwomen #womenintech
We are happy to extend an invitation to our event, offering a chance to network with accomplished female pros across diverse IT domains, rub shoulders with CTOs, connect with talented dev teams, and mingle with the brilliant minds behind your favorite tech brands. This event is a match made in heaven for software engineers, data scientists, PMs and project managers, and UI/UX designers who want to stay ahead of the game in the fast-paced world of tech. While this event is centered around women in tech, we extend a warm invitation to everyone to join us.On the company side, we have CTOs who can write code blindfolded, VP of Engineering who have a black belt in project management, and talent acquisition leaders who have recruited more people than McDonald's has served hamburgers. And on the attendee side, we have techies who know how to turn caffeine into code and can make an app out of thin air. This event is not just about networking, it's about connecting with fellow mid-/senior tech pros in the industry, sharing a laugh or two, and maybe even finding your next career move. So come join us for a unique networking event where job seekers take the driver's seat!
We will: listen to short and sweet pitches by CTOs and hiring teams and vote best pitch (who said that corporate evaluation can't be fun?), talk all things tech, network and run speed interviews, meet faces behind our fav tech brands, and see what our local tech has to offer this season.
Tickets, Fees, CollaborationCurious techies and job seekers never pay fees to attend our events unless they secure one of the last 10 tickets available. We offer 150 free tickets, and only the final 10 are paid. If you’re hiring and are looking to present, network and hire at this event, please register here. If you are a part of a tech/community group and are interested in joining forces, please email us at hello@outgeek.org.
What’s the next step?
Register now and our event director will be in touch a few days prior to the session with event details, agenda, speakers, employer information and jobs.
What if my current employer attends the event?
We will notify you when your employer joins the session.
Are your events virtual?
Some of our events are in-person while others are held virtually via Hopin. Both of them have proven to offer an excellent experience for both job seekers and employers. For details please review the event location on your right.
Disclaimer
An event ticket does not guarantee admission due to the theme restrictions (full-stack, back-end, product-only) and roster of posted vacancies. We work with mid- and senior-level IT talent, and rarely see entry-level positions advertised at our sessions.
Refunds
Our events are free for talented tech enthusiasts seeking new job opportunities.
www.outgeek.org
Women in Tech 2026 - Edinburgh Employer Ticket
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
November Meetup - Developer Wellbeing and Open Source
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Welcome to the EdinburghJS November Meetup! We'll be meeting on Tuesday 17th November, 18:30 at the Perk office.
It is an uncertain time to be a programmer. The rise of agentic coding is changing the nature of dev work. Coding with agents can be exhilarating, but also addictive and exhausting. There is pressure to produce more, faster, with less regard for quality. With so much in flux, it can feel like our careers and the craft of coding as we know it are under threat.
Our talks this month will be about mental health and burnout in the age of AI coding.
The event will start with a talk by Miranda Heath about her research on how AI is affecting the mental health of software developers.
We will then have a guided chat about how our wellbeing and jobs are being affected by AI, and how we can support each other through these changes.
Expect pizza, good conversation and moral support!
AI Burnout and Brainfry
This summer, Syntax ran a survey on AI coding and mental health. I analysed the nearly 1000 comments developers left sharing their views and experiences.
Using insights from my training as a psychologist, I highlight some of the biggest and most surprising ways AI is impacting developers psychologically, including:
- how the pressure to produce more, faster, is leading developers to burn out
- how reviewing verbose AI generated code and running multiple agents in parallel puts developers under excessive cognitive loads, leading to ‘AI brainfry’
- how relying on AI to generate code affects developers' motivation, skill development, and feelings of self-worth and confidence
developers' feelings about the changing nature of their craft and profession - how AI creates a feeling of possibility than can make it hard to stop prompting and disconnect from work
I'll then consider what we can do to be healthy and happy coding in a world where AI is ubiquitous.
We will chat about the following topics. Are there any other topics you'd like to see included? Suggest them by sending an email to miranda@mirandaheath.website.
- Are you anxious about job security or finding meaningful work?
- Is pressure to be more productive at work causing you stress and anxiety?
- Do you feel pressure to keep up with developments in AI or be left behind by your peers? Does FOMO keep you up at night?
- Are you worried about how to learn and develop skills in an era where AI support is only a few clicks away?
- Do you find it hard to know when to stop when AI can make it feel like anything is possible?
- Do you struggle with context switching, or experience ‘AI brainfry’ when coding with agents?
- Does coding feel different than it used to? Do you find yourself painfully missing how things used to be?
- Do you feel like AI is devaluing your skills, and making you feel worth less?
- Does it feel harder to connect meaningfully with others when people are communicating more and more through their agents?
- How does AI interact with your autism or ADHD?
Miranda Heath is a founding director and researcher at the Software Stewardship Lab, and the author of the to-date most comprehensive report on burnout in Open Source.
Vlad Miricioiu works on protecting the Open Source infrastructure the world depends on. He is the founder and executive director of the Software Stewardship lab, a non-profit applied research lab working to ensure the stability of the Open Source ecosystems we depend on. He is also the director of the Open Source Pledge, which has raised $7,408,535 for Open Source maintainers.
Thank you to Perk for continuing to sponsor EdinburghJS, providing catering and the venue.
If you would like to speak or volunteer for future events then please get in touch via our speaking and volunteering form, or join our Discord.
If you want to contribute to running costs for the meetup group then you can support us on Patreon.
ProductTank Edinburgh: "The Strategy Cycle" & EOY Retro
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Staring down 2027 planning? Our final meetup of the year focuses on practical tools to build your next strategy.
Part 1: Before the Roadmap
Andrew Skotzko (author of The Strategy Cycle) joins us to tackle the hardest part of planning: moving from a pile of research, stakeholder opinions, and goals to a coherent strategy.
He will share a quick framework to:
- Put strategic choices on a single page.
- Spot decisions you are actively avoiding.
- Build a draft your team can challenge and execute.
Bonus: Andrew will gift 5 copies of his new book to attendees.
Part 2: 2026 Reflection and Shaping 2027
After the talk, we will review our ProductTank year and gather your feedback. Tell us what topics, speakers, and formats you want to see in 2027 so we can build next year's schedule around what you need.
Agenda:
5:30PM-6:00PM - Arrival + food & drink
6:00PM-6:45PM - Andrew Skotzko talk
7:00PM-7:30PM - Lookback on 2026 & Voice of the Community
7:30-8:00PM - Wrap Up + Networking
Whether you're a seasoned product manager or just starting your journey, this meetup promises a fantastic opportunity to unwind, reflect, and engage with our incredible community. Let's come together to make the upcoming year even more remarkable.
Please RSVP to secure your spot, and feel free to invite friends and colleagues who share your passion for product.
Let's wrap up the year with a bang! 🎊✨
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About Andrew:
Andrew Skotzko is a product leadership coach, strategy advisor, and author of The Strategy Cycle. He helps product leaders make better strategic choices and turn those choices into action.
Over 15 years as a product leader, he built products and led teams across B2B and B2C, nine industries, and every company stage from startup to Fortune 100. The products he worked on reached more than 80 million consumers and thousands of business customers. He has advised leaders at companies including Google, Databricks, Asana, GitHub, Ramp, HubSpot, and Intuit.
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TechTalks Edinburgh #11 – Agile in the Age of AI
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
When AI Changes the Pace of Delivery, What Happens to Agile?
Tim Leslie
When the Agile Manifesto was written, delivering software every couple of weeks was a truly radical idea. With AI, working features now ship in days or even hours, so does a refinement meeting once a fortnight still make sense? Tim will look at what our ways of working should be in a world dominated by agents and, increasingly, software factories.
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Agenda:
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm - Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat
- 6:30pm- 6:40pm - Opening talk
- 6:40pm-7:30pm - Main talk
- 7:30pm-7:45pm - q&a
- 7:45pm-8:00pm - beverages • networking • closing.
- 8:00pm onwards - Afterparty at a nearby pub.
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Speaker Spotlight:
Tim Leslie - Engineering Manager & AI Learning Lead, Skyscanner - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-leslie-b2184b26/
Tim leads AI learning for 950 engineers at Skyscanner. He has 12 years of experience leading teams of up to 40 engineers and product specialists in small and medium-sized organisations.
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Partners:
- CodeBase
- Dougray
- Scottish Technology Club
- Beyond Tech
- Lyxonn
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Disclaimer:
We will take pictures and videos of the event for our social pages. If you prefer not to be in any photos or videos, please let us know.
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👉 Interested in speaking at next TechTalks? Get in touch at speaker@adhoc.space or message us on social media.
Follow us:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adhoc-space/about/
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to stay in the loop. See you at the next TechTalks!
Previous events:
TechTalks #10 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/316995619/
TechTalks #9 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/315860405/
TechTalks #8 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/314756430/
Edinburgh Data Science Meetup - Agentic AI Special
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Edinburgh's community meetup for people working in - or just interested in - Data Science & AI. We're a friendly bunch of professionals, academics, students and others who enjoy meeting over drinks and pizza and listening to insightful talks.
You can now RSVP either here or via luma.com!
This event is kindly sponsored by FreeAgent - the Edinburgh-based accounting software provider for small businesses. We will be hosted at their offices from 5.15pm on Wednesday 25th November.
We have two great talks on our themed special exploring building AI agents:
Suleman Imdad Your AI Passed the Test. That's the Problem
A model can ace its evaluation and still fail the moment it meets reality. This talk digs into why, with findings from my own research:
• An 8B open model that changes its behaviour when it senses a safety test (a trick usually blamed on frontier models), and why its family predicts that better than its size
• The standard benchmark split that understates how badly drug-discovery models fail on genuinely new chemistry, on 21 of 22 endpoints
• What running a machine-learning system with real money teaches you about validation that no leaderboard will
• A practical checklist for catching a flattering evaluation before production does
Dr. Jon Minton Data as graphs: how to get AI agents to know what you know and they need to know
Say "data" to a statistician and they picture a table; say "graph" and they picture a chart. A computer scientist pictures nodes and edges. Working well with AI agents means holding both at once.
In two years we've moved from prompt engineering to context engineering, then loops, and now graphs. Jon Minton argues that the durable skill isn't the tooling. It's graph thinking: building a growing web of linked notes, decisions and preferences that an agent can traverse, so it keeps learning what you know and what you need to know. That web runs back from Codd's normal forms through tidy data to slipboxes and hypertext.
Drawing on the past few months of running a small consultancy with agents, Jon looks at the connections in both directions. Some carry knowledge from people to agents. Others carry it back from agents to people, as charts, reports and the occasional task the agent hands to its human. He also looks at where those connections turn into dark patterns: humans used as the machine's hands, or one model passing a refused task to another.
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Schedule:
5.15pm - 6.30pm - Networking with pizza and drinks
6.30pm - 7.45pm - Talks with Q&A
7.45pm onwards - Continued networking.
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Speaker bios:
Suleman Imdad is the founder of Steel.vision, an Edinburgh-based company working on AI assurance (evaluating, testing and safety-checking enterprise AI systems) and edge AI for industrial field work. Over 15+ years he has built production software and AI systems for clients including Apple, Walmart, Nike, PwC and CVS, and he also builds and runs a live, real-money ML trading system. He is completing an MS in Artificial Intelligence at Johns Hopkins University, where his research covers transformer quantization and activation steering.
Dr. Jon Minton is a statistician, health economist, and public health researcher with approximately 20 years of experience across academia, public health, and the medical technology sector. He began his career in research at the University of York, contributing to systematic reviews and health technology assessments for NICE, before moving to the University of Sheffield to focus on health economic modelling. He subsequently spent five years at the University of Glasgow researching mortality trends and health inequalities, followed by six years at Public Health Scotland, where he supported the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 response and led population health analysis initiatives. From 2024 to 2026, he worked as a Senior Statistician at Smith+Nephew, specialising in clinical trial analysis, statistical methodology, and automation. Most recently, he founded Knowledge Tree and Butterfly Ltd, an Edinburgh-based consultancy focused on integrating agentic AI and reproducible analytical methods into research and software development.
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FreeAgent is an accessible venue, if you have any questions about accessibility please get in touch.
Python E-Commerce Forum
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Python conference in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Cyber Scotland Connect: Edinburgh Meetup at CodeBase!
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Cyber Scotland Connect is thrilled to announce our next event in Central Edinburgh at CodeBase Edinburgh, supported by RiverSafe, which has kindly sponsored the event!
Time/Date: November 26th, 2026, 17:30-20:30
Location: CodeBase Edinburgh, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL
Please note that we have a limit of 80 attendees, so please update your RSVP if you can no longer make it.
Agenda
- 17:30 - Doors Open
- 17:55 - Harry from CSC: Welcome!
- 18:00 - Gary Hunter
The Path to an Agentic SoC*: A practical, real-world framework for introducing AI safely into security operations without falling into the “AI all the things” trap. Learn how to combine IaC, human-in-the-loop automation, agent constraints and AI Error Budgets to improve speed and coverage. Based on first-hand experience from an eight-person security team protecting a FTSE 350 SaaS platform across AWS and GCP. - 18:30 - Joshua A.
Reading Malware Config Off the Blockchain (NullReceiver Malware)
How a developer-targeted campaign used next.config.js and .vscode/tasks.json as execution primitives, and why config files deserve the same scrutiny as application code. - 19:00 - Rory McCune
Surviving 2026 - A Security practitioners Field Guide to LLMs and Agents*: This year I've tested nearly 50 models and used several of them to build real projects, from production software to PoC exploits. Over the course of the year agents have gone from novelty to everyday tooling, bringing new capabilities and a new attack surface with them.*
This talk is a practical guide from someone who's been hands-on all year. We'll talk about which models and tools actually deliver, how to get useful work out of agents, and where they fail, from confidently wrong output to security refusals. I'll also take a look at how to evaluate the constant stream of new releases without drowning in hype, so you leave with an approach that will still hold up when next week's model drops. - 19:30 - Caleb Eghan
Break the bank: welcome to the other side of the login screen:
A lot of apps look secure from the login screen. This session shows what happens once you get past it.
Using Rozolo, our deliberately vulnerable banking app, we follow a single £1 payment through the API layer and watch it turn into exposed customer data and unauthorised transactions. The weaknesses on show are the ones a scanner or firewall tends to miss: broken authorisation, weak object-level access control, and data the API hands back without being asked for it.
The API layer is now the softest part of most estates, and perimeter controls do little to defend it. We use the walkthrough to show where a modern API security strategy actually earns its place: visibility over what your APIs expose, authorisation enforced per object rather than per endpoint, and testing that hunts for logic and access flaws rather than known signatures. - 20:30 - Close
Please ensure you RSVP to this event, as we're limited in the number of people we can accommodate.
Keeping CSC Accessible for All
Cyber Scotland Connect has always been, and will always be, free to attend. We believe that barriers to entry—especially for students, career switchers, and those currently seeking new opportunities—should be nonexistent.
How you can help: If you are established in your career and find value in our sessions, we invite you to Pay It Forward.
While there is zero obligation, we have launched a Buy Me a Coffee page. Your contributions help us cover our essential running costs, which are mostly refreshments and some minor infrastructure costs, ensuring that those in our community who are currently unemployed or studying can continue to attend and network at no cost.
- Tickets: Always £0.
- The Goal: A sustainable, community-funded future for CSC.
- The Impact: Supporting the next generation of Scotland’s cyber talent.
Please ensure you have reviewed our code of conduct, which outlines our expectations for all participating in our community and the consequences for unacceptable behaviour.
LeadDev Meetup Edinburgh - November 2026
Edinburgh, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
LeadDev Edinburgh meetup
🎟 Please RSVP BELOW! 🎟
Join us for our next LeadDev meet-up on Thursday the 26th of November and enjoy an evening of networking and talks.
Date: Thursday the 26th of November
Time: 18:00 - 20:45
Location: Skyscanner, 15 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EN
Spaces are limited - you must RSVP to attend. We hope to see you there!
⏰ SCHEDULE ⏰
18:00 - Arrival, networking and refreshments
18:45 - Welcome from our host
18:50 - Software factories - Tim Leslie, AI Learning Lead for Engineering at Skyscanner
19:15 - The Journey to Healthy Leadership Habits - Tobi Tonner, Software Engineer | Leadership Coach
19:40 - Break
20:00 - O'Reilly book giveaway
20:10 - Distributed system citizenship - Tadhg Davey, Principal Engineer at NHS Scotland
20:30 - Wrap & Networking
20:45 - Close
🎤 SPEAKERS 🎤
Tim Leslie, AI Learning Lead for Engineering at Skyscanner
Talk: Software factories
Tim currently leads AI training for engineers at Skyscanner. He has previous experience leading teams of up to 40 engineers in various startups, including a Unicorn.
Tobi Tonner, Software Engineer | Leadership Coach
Talk: The Journey to Healthy Leadership Habits
Tobi has learned his craft working as a software engineer and as a senior technical leader in startups and scaleups.
He is particularly passionate about the future of work: How can we create organisations where people create value whilst feeling grounded and fulfilled?
Tobi now works as a software engineer and also as a certified coach. He helps leaders gain confidence, make clear decisions and achieve steady growth.
Tadhg Davey, Principal Engineer at NHS Scotland
Talk: Distributed system citizenship
Tadhg is an Engineer working for NHS Scotland. Where he's been part of building the platform that powers healthcare services across Scotland including dermatology, vaccinations and mycare.scot.
When not at work he can usually be found on Arthur's Seat.
🔹 CODE OF CONDUCT 🔹
As with our conferences, LeadDev Meetups are a safe and inclusive event for all. By attending, you agree to our code of conduct.
🔸 SLACK COMMUNITY 🔸
You can also join our Slack workspace to keep up with everything in our Edinburgh community. Join the channel #edinburgh.
📚 BOOK GIVEAWAY 📚
Thanks to our partner O'Reilly we will be giving away four of their excellent titles at the meet-up
- The Staff Engineer's Path
- Crafting Engineering Strategy
- Vision Language Models
- Designing Data Intensive Applications
🙏🏻 THANK YOU 🙏🏻
Thank you to our Edinburgh meet-up partner Skyscanner.